V. 61 (University Library, Cambridge University)
E. G. Browne Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: اشعار يحيى ریحان (مدیر گل زرد) The Persian poems, mostly political and composed during the Great War, of
a young poet named Yahyà Rayḥán, who sent this little volume to me in November,
1918. According to the accompanying letter (dated Shawwál 10, 1336/July 19,
1918) he was born at Tihrán in 1313/1895-6 and received his education there until
1328/1910, when he accompanied his family to Khurásán. In the following year
some of his poems were published in the Naw Bahár (No. 42), of April 20, 1911.
In 1334/1915-6 he returned to Tihrán and entered a department of the Ministry of
Finance. In the spring of 1336/1918 he began publishing his fortnightly paper,
entitled Gul-i-Zard ("the Yellow Rose"), of which he sent me the first four
numbers, published on June 7, June 21, July 6 and July 21, 1918. A photograph
of the poet, taken in 1335/1917, is pasted into the beginning of the book, which
comprises 98 written pages (numbered by the copyist, probably the author himself)
of 17.5 x 13 c. and 14 to 18 ll., written in a fair cursive ta'liq. For his lighter verse
the author uses the pen-name of Jújí. The collection consists of about 34 poems, mostly in the new style, and with
such titles as: "At the beginning of the International War." در اوائل جنگ بین المللی "The plaint of the victim, the philosophy of the oppressor." فریاد مظلوم فلسفه ظالم "A moral ode." يك غزل اخلاقی "Awaiting spring in a garden." در يك گلزار بانتظار بهار Rayhán is very fond of the mustazád, so popular amongst the poets of the
Revolution, many specimens of which are given in my Press and Poetry of Modern
Persia (e.g. Nos. 4, 5. 40 etc.). This type of verse, however, is not so modern as
I had originally supposed, for it goes back at least to Yaghmá of Jandaq, who
flourished in the middle of the nineteenth century. See my Persian Literature in
Modern Times, pp. 339-343-
a young poet named Yahyà Rayḥán, who sent this little volume to me in November,
1918. According to the accompanying letter (dated Shawwál 10, 1336/July 19,
1918) he was born at Tihrán in 1313/1895-6 and received his education there until
1328/1910, when he accompanied his family to Khurásán. In the following year
some of his poems were published in the Naw Bahár (No. 42), of April 20, 1911.
In 1334/1915-6 he returned to Tihrán and entered a department of the Ministry of
Finance. In the spring of 1336/1918 he began publishing his fortnightly paper,
entitled Gul-i-Zard ("the Yellow Rose"), of which he sent me the first four
numbers, published on June 7, June 21, July 6 and July 21, 1918. A photograph
of the poet, taken in 1335/1917, is pasted into the beginning of the book, which
comprises 98 written pages (numbered by the copyist, probably the author himself)
of 17.5 x 13 c. and 14 to 18 ll., written in a fair cursive ta'liq. For his lighter verse
the author uses the pen-name of Jújí. The collection consists of about 34 poems, mostly in the new style, and with
such titles as: "At the beginning of the International War." در اوائل جنگ بین المللی "The plaint of the victim, the philosophy of the oppressor." فریاد مظلوم فلسفه ظالم "A moral ode." يك غزل اخلاقی "Awaiting spring in a garden." در يك گلزار بانتظار بهار Rayhán is very fond of the mustazád, so popular amongst the poets of the
Revolution, many specimens of which are given in my Press and Poetry of Modern
Persia (e.g. Nos. 4, 5. 40 etc.). This type of verse, however, is not so modern as
I had originally supposed, for it goes back at least to Yaghmá of Jandaq, who
flourished in the middle of the nineteenth century. See my Persian Literature in
Modern Times, pp. 339-343-
Title: Ashʻār-i Yaḥyá Rayḥānī
Title: اشعار يحيى ريحانی
Language(s): Persian
References
Some of these poems were published in the journal Gul-i zard گل زرد .
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 98 written pages, Ff. 98
Dimensions: 17.5 × 13 cm.
Layout
14 to 18 lines
Hand(s)
Written in a fair cursive ta'liq.
History
Origin: Early 14th century AH; Early 20th century CE
Provenance and Acquisition
Poems of Yahyà Rayḥán, sent by the author in November 1918.
Bequest of E. G. Browne.
Record Sources
Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.
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